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...provide any real insight into which candidates will get nominated or who will ultimately win the 2008 presidential race. Still, there's no harm in guessing - or in taking a look at what the American public really wants to know. In a previous article, I revealed the most popular searched-on issues in relation to each of the presidential hopefuls. Now, somewhere over Colorado, I'm sifting through thousands of these one-off searches, hoping to draw a connection, like a word-association game, between what gets searched online and what goes through a voter's mind once the curtain...
...looks like Internet users are also trying to predict their favored candidate's success in the upcoming election by searching on head-to-head comparisons with their likely competition: "Clinton versus Giuliani," or "Fred Thompson versus Barack Obama." (Searches on Fred Thompson, by the way, are as popular as searches for pictures of his wife...
...race is one of the most open in years, with two popular veteran councillors and one School Committee member retiring...
...candidacy may be more publicity stunt than anything else, but the sentiment behind it is genuine. This mock-run is not the first manifestation of a surprisingly widespread desire to put Colbert or his fellow fake news show host Jon Stewart in the White House. (A popular line of “Stewart-Colbert ’08” t-shirts already surfaced earlier this fall.) Certainly the belief that Colbert and Stewart could fix the nation’s political woes is a fantasy, but perhaps it’s a more compelling fantasy than the slogans...
...however, the U.S. needs to help Erdogan's government by enunciating policies that assuage Turkey's nationalist military and the voice it has found in the popular street demonstrations. Thus, in recent days, the U.S. has sounded more accommodating of Turkey's military proposals after earlier criticizing plans to send troops into northern Iraq. This week, U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said that while Washington still opposes Turkish military operations inside the country "because obviously there are troubles enough in Iraq" Washington understands Turkey's concerns. "It is absolutely imperative that steps be taken to prevent such PKK attacks...